2 Corinthians 11:1-15 ▼

1 O that you were bearing with me a little of the folly, but you also bear with me:

2 for I am zealous for you with zeal of God, for I betrothed you to one Husband, a pure virgin, to present to Christ,

3 and I fear, lest, as the serpent deceived Eve in his subtlety, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that [is] in the Christ;

4 for if, indeed, he who is coming preaches another Jesus whom we did not preach, or you receive another spirit which you did not receive, or other good news which you did not accept—well were you bearing [it],

5 for I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles,

6 and even if a commoner in speech—yet not in knowledge, but in everything we were made evident in all things to you.

7 Did I do sin—humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I freely proclaimed the good news of God to you?

8 I robbed other assemblies, having taken wages, for your ministry;

9 and being present with you, and having been in want, I was chargeable to no one, for the brothers supplied my lack—having come from Macedonia—and I kept myself burdenless to you in everything, and will keep.

10 The truth of Christ is in me, because this boasting will not be stopped in regard to me in the regions of Achaia;

11 for what reason? Because I do not love you? God has known!

12 And what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the occasion of those wishing an occasion, that in that which they boast they may be found according as we also;

13 for those such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ,

14 and no wonder—for even Satan transforms himself into a messenger of light;

15 [it is] no great thing, then, if his servants also transform themselves as servants of righteousness—whose end will be according to their works.